1 And Job answered and said,2 Truly I know [it is so], but how can man be just with God?3 If he will argue with Him, he cannot answer Him one of a thousand.4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened [himself] against Him and been blessed;5 [He] who removes the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturns them in His anger;6 [He] who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble;7 the one speaking to the sun, and it does not rise; and seals up the stars;8 who alone stretches out the heavens, and walks on the waves of the sea;9 who made the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;10 who is doing great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things without number?11 Behold! He goes by me, and I do not see [Him]; He passes on also, but I do not perceive Him.12 Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?13 God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of pride stoop under Him.14 How much less shall I answer Him, [and] choose my arguments with Him?15 Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] I would not answer; I seek mercy for my judgment.16 If I had called and He had answered me, yet would I not believe that He had listened to my voice;17 [He] who breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;18 [who] will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.19 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [He is] mighty! And if of judgment, who shall set me a time?20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; [though] I [am] perfect, He shall declare me perverse.21 [Though] I [were] perfect, yet I would not know my soul. I would despise my life.22 It [is] One, therefore I said, He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.23 If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the innocent.24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges; if it [is] not [He], then who [is] it?25 Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.26 They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will depart from my heaviness and be of good cheer,28 I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent.29 I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,31 yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.32 For [He is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer Him, [that] we should come together in judgment;33 there is no mediator between us, [who] might lay his hand on us both.34 Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His fear make me afraid;35 [then] would I speak and not fear Him; for [it is] not so with me.